Some suspected hoodlums descended on members of staff of The Sun newspaper in Aba, Abia State on Monday. The thugs were reportedly armed and five in number. It was gathered they accused the media platform of writing against the state governor, Theodore Orji. According to report, the gunmen beat those they met at the office…
President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, Chibuzor Asomugha, has expressed his frustration over the lingering industrial action embarked on by the union to press home for its demands from the Federal Government. Members of ASUP have remained at home for 10 months. Students of various public polytechnics in Nigeria have also begged…
Kwara Police Command has arrested 15 suspected thugs allegedly intending to burn the family house of an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain in the state, Abubakar Kawu Baraje. The suspects were paraded on Friday by the police in Ilorin, the state capital. Addressing newsmen on the development, the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Ambrose…
Several gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group called Boko Haram were slain on Thursday night by the Nigerian Army. They were killed in a gun battle with the military in Bulanbuli, Borno State. A statement on Friday by the army spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade, explained that the fight stated after the…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been urged to contest the 2015 presidential election. This appeal was made by the Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa, on Friday in Abuja, when he paid a courtesy visit to the President. The respected monarch, represented by his son, Eheneden Erediauwa, revealed that his kingdom has…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the abductors of the over 100 students of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno, who were kidnapped last Tuesday, to free their victims. The Nigeria’s major opposition party made this call on Monday in Kwara State through its spokesman, Lai Mohammed. Mohammed, the Interim National Publicity Secretary…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has rescheduled another security meeting for next week. This came after governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were left out in the first meeting which held on Thursday in Abuja. It was gathered that Jonathan decided to hold another meeting with the governors, along with the Service Chiefs, to discuss…
The Nigerian Army has withdrawn its earlier claim that about 107 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped in Borno State on Tuesday, have been rescued by its men from the camp of their abductors. The army’s initial figure was rubbished by the Principal of the school, who claimed that only 14 girls have so far returned, after…
Contrary to claims by the Nigerian Army that about 107, out of the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by some gunmen on Tuesday have been rescued, the Principal of the school, Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, Mrs Asabe Kwambura, has revealed that only 14 girls are with them. She told Premium Times that the…
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, visited the ancient city of Kano for a grand ceremony to welcome a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, to the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. His visit to the city came a day after some terrorists killed about 200 people at a bus station in Abuja. The President…